((OOC: Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that so far two SUITS have been taken down...and the one left is the one that Bosolai ticked off.))

Dang it, Leon! Ben thought to himself, Why didn't you just take the thing down instead of stealing it's weapon? You can salvage later, you dolt!

<Would you like me to relay that last comment to Ziltal?> Phalnax asked helpfully.

"Only if this guy kills me." Ben muttered.

The SUITS that Leon had damaged was in a decidely bad mood after it had it's toy taken away from it, and it had decided to throw it tanturm at the nearest enemy.

Which happened to be Phalnax.

<Leon said that there is an explosive device on the back.>

"That doesn't do me much good if I can see it's back, now does it?" Ben snarled.

The enemy SUITS, even though it only had one arm, was coming on like a wrecking ball. Ben caught it with his spear, but the enemy SUITS pilot had lost it, and was in some sort of rage.

Suddenly, Ben cursed.

<What? What is it?>

"I just recognized the suit type. It's a Berserker."

<That would explain it. The SUITS has altered it's pilot to the point where he has entered a state of berserker bloodlust. He will fight until destroyed or until all foe are killed.>

The enemy SUITS brought around it's large plasma sword. Ben blocked it with his shield.

"Deploy rollers and activate boosters on my mark." Ben said.

<Copy.>

Swing his shield, Ben knocked the enemies arm and sword out o the way, and brought his spear around to front.

"Now!" Ben yelled.

Ben felt himself get pushed back at the suddenly burst of speed. The spear was aimed perfectly, and cut deep into the enemy SUITS.

"Realign boosters to give me some height." Ben said.

On command, Phalnax was airborn, the spear cutting a deep gash into the SUITS armor from chest to head. Ben brought up his grenade launcher.

<Wait! I think we're still ins->

The grenade launcher fired, and hit it's mark.

Along with Leon's demo pack. The blast was strong enough to knock Phalnax out of the air.

<...ide the blast radius.> Phalnax finished dully.

"Damage?"

<Damage to right arm: Grenade launcher disabled. Damage to torso: Medium damage to armor, shockwave caused light internal damage. Damage to legs: Boosters disabled. Overall peformance lost: 34%>

"Yeah, but that was the last SUITS, right?" Ben asked.

Fledges blades stopped there furious spin through the crowd of mercenaries as the final group fell. It stood up straight as Sebastian surveyed the damage they had done.

Lets see here, Sebastian thought, They already took care of the fun part, all of the suits are already down, which means they left me to do cleanup work again. I knew as I worked my way through those mercs no one else was helping. His eyes drifted over the view of the merc's Thomas and Eileen had demolished, Others may have helped too much. Eh, I knew this job wouldn't be filled with glory all the time, but they could share now and again. That was when another camera activated showing a Mech approaching him from behind with what appeared to be a poorly made axe.

*Helper Fledge appears* "I have formulated a battle tactic against the Mech, would you like to discuss it further?"

Sebastian quickly tapped the 'No thanks' option on the display as he rotated Fledge to face his opponent. It lifted its axe back and rapidly flung it forwards towards Fledges chest. Fledge crossed his swords and caught the Axe, it took all of the power Fledge had to keep the axe from splitting him open.

*Helper Fledge appears*"This mech has nearly double of our possible force output, would you like to see my tactic suggestion?"

Sebastian again quickly hit the 'No, thanks' option as he pushed the axe backward, he quickly swung his left sword into the axe to keep the other mech on the defensive, rotating his wrist he brought the sword back around the other way catching axe again. His right sword followed quickly, forcing the mech back as he tried to find a moment to bring his axe down into Fledge. The mech kept pacing itself backwards as it used its axe to easily block Fledge's onslaught.

*Helper Fledge appears*"Your attack appears to be falling short of victory, would you like to see my tactic now?"

FINE!, Sebastian angrily hit the 'Ok' option on the touchpad screen as it activated in a flash of light. Explaining the tactic quickly by downloading the information directly into his brain, Sebastian always swore up and down to Gus it hurt like hell. But really it just pissed him off to have the ship itself pilot itself better then he could. He crossed his swords in defense once again catching the Axe, but this time Fledge activated his boosters. The sudden explosion of force launched the mech backwards off his footing.

The mech surprised at the sudden shot backwards slammed its left foot back to stop itself, landing in a conveniently placed hole. There was a sudden explosion of energy as the Lightning Gun exploded under his weight. The discharge of energy rippled across the mech as it demolished his leg, the pilot must have been completely thrown off by this. After all he didn't even make a move to block Fledges incoming sword. The sound of the pilots pod being pierced was a high piercing squeal.

The mech fell to the ground slowly as it slid off of the edge of the sword. Sebastian would have breathed a sigh of relief had it not been for the fact he was in liquid oxygen and totally relaxed as it was. He typed a message and sent it over the com to the others.

"My condolences on your new toy Leon."

Inside his SUITS Rick smiled. "Ok time to end this." He straightened his arm and locked it in place leaping high into the air and driving his hand straight inside where his ally had weakened. He gave his arm a twist and a rather loud squish was heard.
<Squish? SUITS dont go squish.>

"...crap I hit the pilot. I only ment to immobilize him you know how much they hate casualties." He pulls out his blood soaked arm and relaxed it. After giving it a few flicks to get most of it off he turned to his comrade. "Well doubt he will be much more trouble. Commander this is Rick, one hostile SUITS has been...neutralized. Requesting new orders"

Things stopped moving. There weren't any more enemies showing up on any scanners that weren't being finished off by someone else. But suddenly, a red and blue flash lit up the thermal sensor. "Crap, what was that?"

<An explosion. Doesn't register as ally weaponry.>

"Does that mean I get to play counter-demolitions again?"

<My condolences on your new toy Leon.> Sebastian chimed in.

<98% chance and uncoincidentally my guess is no, but rather our recent salvage just exploded due to Sebastian using it as an impromptu weapon.>

"Dammit." Leon sighed, then over the intercom, "No worries. Ziltal got the basic schematics down, so Alexis can make a better one for me. At least it went out with a bang! Haha!" "Ziltal, can you open a com with Alexis? I want to check up with her one last time before we do anything dangerous. Oh, and relay the data on that gun."

<You mean you're letting her check up on you. A month and a half away from marriage and she's already the ball and chain.>

"Shut up and open the com link."

<Hahaha. Here ya go.>

"Hello? Oh! Leon! What took so long? Its about time you rescued that girl." Alexis said condecendingly.

"We arrived 5 minutes ago, and we just took out the first wave."

"Oh, then what did you call for?"

"Just thanking you again for this stealth unit. Its a real help. That, and we found a new toy. A lightning gun. I'm having Ziltal send you the schematics as we speak."

"You could've just brought it to me. I'd fix it up and modify it for you."

"Um... Thats the thing..." Leon sighed again.

"You broke it already, didn't you?"

"When was the last time I ever brought you something intact?"

"Good point. Well, honey, its downloaded now. I'm gonna start working on it. Good luck in there, and don't do anything stupid. Stick to demolitions and anti-security. Ziltal is designed to survive fire, corrosion, electricity, and explosions, NOT plasma and AP bullets!"

"Don't worry, babe. I'll see you tonight."

"Byebyes!"

<Channel closed. I think I know who wears the pants in that relationship.>

"Tell me that again when you're modified to allow for procreation."

<I'd rather not be a builder, thank you very much.>

"Shut up and activate stealth and mass negator."

<Stealth activated. Mass negator charging.... Mas negator activated.>

"Room secure. Should a group of us break off to take the security room? A brief electroanalysis can map it for us."

Jack was quickly running through the halls, following as best he could where Damien had gone. He knew he was close, but he wasn't quite sure how long it was until he had to go up on the cieling or the wall to remain hidden. Then he got a message from Damien, on that made him very happy.

<I copy that. Distraction starts... now.>

Then he heard some screams and gunshots. He always loved it when he knew he could sneak past people quickly because they were too distracted. Moving in the direction of the noises of the unsuing fight, Jack quickly went into a sprint, jumping at a wall and then rebounding up to the ceiling, clinging there once he made it. He made sure that the camoflauge coating was activated, and before he knew it, he was blening in with the cieling. Crawling along the cieling in a way that almost made him look like a gecko, Jack made his way over the heads of everyone in the firefight. Damien could probably pick him out from the rest because of his experience, but the thugs were too busy being scared to notice him.

"I can't believe they can't see you. You're not even trying!" Cham chimed in as Jack made his way past Damien and closer to the hostage.

"Hey, as long as I don't let go and you keep quiet, we're set," Jack responded quietly as he squirmed his way along the ceiling. When he was far enough away, Jack dropped to the ground, landing like a cat and making only a small clink that made Jack grimmace. He hated making noise, but that was the disadvantage of wearing a giant metal piece of armor.

Jack hoped whatever Damien was doing would be enough, because noise other than his own was exactly what he needed. However, right now he had to think of another way into the room other than the front door. Then he saw it, a vent high up on the cieling. Smirking, he jumped up and activated the manipulator on his left arm and got to work. The small plasma blade quickly cut out the screws holding the vent in, and Jack made sure to catch it and lower it to the ground quietly. Lifting himself up into the cramped opening, Jack made sure he was quiet as he went through the metal passage. Then he heard something that gave him everything he needed to find the target.

"Damn it, what the hell is going on out there?" a voice asked angrily in the direction to Jack's right.

"Judging by the explosions, I'd say THE POLICE ARE HERE YOU FUCKING MORON!" another voice spat. They were obviously the guards, because he could hear a young girl wimpering after the second on yelled. Jack couldn't help but hold back a smile. Now he just needed to know how many of them there were.

"You DUMBASS! How many times do I have to fucking tell you, DON'T GO OUT THERE! We already sent three guys to help, and now it's just you, me, and the damn girl." The second guard was probably pissed because he couldn't have more guards with him and they were obviously being beaten badly. However, Jack didn't care, because now he knew there were only two guards to get rid of.

Crawling along until he could hear the noise right below him, Jack looked through the grate that was making the noise. He couldn't see much of the room, but it was mostly empty, and the guards, who happened to be mercs, were right below him, along with the target. It would be so easy to level his rifle and take out both of the guards, but with where he was, he could hit the girl. He wouldn't take that risk.

Activating his cutter again, Jack quietly cut open the vent while the two argued. With her spot on the floor and being forced to look up to see the guards, the target could easily see what Jack was doing. Barely holding back a smile, she watched as the vent was pulled up and into the vent. It was a reckless move, but at this point, Jack really didn't need to worry about being spotted, as long as he could get the target out without having too much resistance. Now was the time to do something stupid, and that's exactly what he was about to do.

"You sure this is the right thing to do?" Cham asked. The SUITS knew everything Jack knew about stealth, and most likely more, so it knew this was the dumbest thing Jack was about to do in his career.

Jack didn't respond as he dropped right on top of the first guard, stabbing down on him with his plasma manipulator, killing him with the rest of his downward momentum. The other he took care of rather easily, just taking out his rifle and letting a three-round burst blow large holes in the armor and then following through into his flesh. He saw the target looking at him in horror as he straightened out to secure his rifle on his shoulder, then went back down on four legs.

"Sorry about the mess, ma'am, but I'm here to get you out. I'm with the SSF, so don't say a thing and grab on to my back," he told her quietly. With half of the objective completed, Jack had to make sure there was a clear path as he was going out.

"Everyone, this is Jack again, I've secured the target. Clear a path to the hole in the roof and I can be out of here as fast as Cham can take me." With the target clinging to him grudgingly and a clear path for at least the first few seconds, Jack started sprinting through the halls, the sounds of him coming through sounding like a dog running through a house. He relly hoped he didn't have to stop to kill anyone, because the girl was obviously scared enough from him just killing her guards.

Beowulf turned to Rick and his Striker. He turned his comm on.

"Rick? Why aren't you upstairs yet? I sent you up there a few minutes ago. We'll hold them off down he-OOOF!"

When Thomas was distracted with Rick, a large pincer-like claw had shot through the hole in the wall, grabbed Beowulf, and dragged him outside. The large claw belonged to a mech, and a pretty big one at that.

Thomas tried to reach for his plasma manipulators, but before he could reach them, his arms were grabbed by even more claws. They were popping out of the mech's back.

Suddenly, Thomas's arms began to hurt. The claws that were holding them were beginning to pull his arms, attempting to rip them from the main body. And if Beowulf's arms go, then so does Thomas's. He could hear the mech pilot's voice.

"Hehehe, this is fun. Kind of like when you rip the legs off of spiders, huh?"

"What would you like to do, Thomas? It's up to you, really. My arms can be reattached later. I'm not so sure about yours, though. I guess it's not very fun to be an organic, huh?"

"Shut up, Beowulf. Hurry up and activate the chest mini-guns."

Within a moment, two flaps on Beowulf's chest opened up, and two miniguns popped out. There was a loud click, and the voice of the mech pilot again.

"Oh, shit-"

The area around them was filled with the sound of the twin miniguns shooting several hundred rounds of ammo into the face plate of the enemy mech. After a few minutes of this, the clicks of empty Plasmus cartridges could be heard. The claws loosened, and the mech dropped to the ground. Thomas turned on his comm.

"Everybody! We need to grab the daughter and get out NOW! Reinforcements are coming, and they're not something we want to put an unprotected girl in the middle of."

Lee began to move down the halls going about 10 mph. Banking off walls whenever he came to corners. He found a closed door and slowed to a stop.

"Griff, give me an infrared scan and a vocal audio search. I want to know who's on the other side of this door." A moment later his screen altered color and the outline of several warm bodies came up in the room. As well as small amounts of voices. Mostly coughing and mumbling.

"I estimate 4 humans lightly armed, and 1 with a higher density, likely armor, as well as what appears to be a large caliber rifle." Griff informed him.

"Oh isn't that fun. Well I could keep moving or go in, kick some ass, and ask some questions."

"I have a plan of attack." Griff commented,

"Of course you do Griff, lets see it." Lee said as schematics of an attack plan came up on his screen. his shoulder guns would fire out the hinges while he boosted through the door. The door flying inward would block most bullets and likely take out most of his enemies. "Alright lets do it." Lee moved to the back wall and braced himself to rush the door. The guns fired out the hinges expertly and he thrusted through the door. The door blew inward and knocked over two thugs. Lee wasted no time and extended his spear. Making a quick swing around the room with his spear. The bladed end of his spear sliced open the remaining thugs, scratching off the armor of the one wearing armor. Ending the swing around with a thrust down he speared through the door and the thug underneath it. He looked at the only man still standing.

The Man looked scared to death to say the least. He shakily raised his rifle. Lee responded by letting the shoulder machine guns lock onto the mans head. "Now why don't you lower that, maybe I'll let you stay alive." He said, into his external come. The man dropped his gun after hearing the announcement coming from the SUITS. Griff walked up and grabbed the man by the throat. He had obviously stolen the armor and weapon from another man. He tightened his hold a little and let his talons dig into the back of his neck, a slight amount of blood trickling down. "Now tell me, where is that girl we are supposed to rescue." He said as Griff displayed a variety of information extracting techniques in the corners of Lees screen.

Just then a voice came over his com

Lee smiled. Happy he wouldn't have to torture this man. "Well you lucked out, Mission accomplished. I'm going to knock you out now, I recommend running away when you wake up." With that Lee slams his other fist into the mans head, knocking him unconscious. "Copy that" Lee replied over the com. "I'll move to secure the outside." With that Lee moved back down the way he came more quickly then when he arrived. Moving out the door he saw the bloodied corpses of the men he had massacred. Locating the hole in the ceiling that had been referred too. He boosted up to the roof and watched around it making sure no threats came to block the path.

Then another message came over his com

"Copy that comander, should I run interfearence. Slow them down a bit? Griff wants more action?"

Beowulf's neurocom was turned on.

<"Copy that comander, should I run interferance? Slow them down a bit? Griff wants more action.">

"Yes, Lee. Keep the heat off of Jack and Cham. If they have the daughter, we don't want anything to happen to them."

Thomas turned his neurocommunicator off, and looked out into the distance. His tactical gauge began to change length and width again as it scanned. A large number of dots appeared in his vision, each given a distance and size number.

"We've got company."

"Shall I Initiate an aerial assault tactic?" Griff inquired as they listened to the order come through.

"Of course Griff." Lee activated the computer control maneuvering and then activated computer control guns. "Go." He ordered and his SUITS leapt into the air boosting at high speed toward the advancing enemies. Lee pulled out his spear as he glided toward the enemies. He spotted the commander on the ground. Griff flew toward what could only be described as impending death. "Well shit," Lee said over the com. "I'm going to need at least two more out here. Rick, Sebastian, Care to join me? Ben Why don't you go ahead and make sure their exit gets some cover. We may need your Shields to protect the girl." With that he came within firing range. Bullets from multiple targets shot out at him. Grif compensated and swerved in an erratic pattern, locking on and firring at thugs with automatic rifles. As the bullets tore threw them their blood sprayed out creating a red mist. "Griff give me back control I want to get that Large suits attention. That seems like the biggest threat." With that he regained control and flew straight toward the Large suit. With all the attention on him not, bullets began to find their marks. Most of them bounced harmlessly off the armor, but a few penetrated.

"Danger, taking excessive fire. Initiate ground attack procedures." Griff suggested.

Lee landed and began to jet along the ground, Using his spear to cut down thugs and Mercenaries as he came to them. He made it to the suit, and it was bigger then he thought. "Wow," He said over the com "This big fuckers got two chain guns, a drill arm, a saw arm and two sword manipulators."

"Should be fun." Griff said. Lee smiled and nodded as he made his first attack against the Imitation SUITS.

Rick acknowledged the message and thought it best to just follow orders. The thrusters on his machine activated and he quickly sped to the corridors they were taking the girl through. First he had some mercs to take care of and their mech. "Unlucky for you I am in a hurry." Unlike how he normally attacks he was less delicate. Not only did he slice the guns with his wire but also fingers, arms, and skulls.

Quickly moving under the mechs fire he drove his hand into the bipedal tanks legs and twisted its drive shaft toppling the giant. Quickly he jumped up and thrusted his arm into the weapon ripping out its engine core. The core spurted out fluid like the still beating heart of a slain warrior. He activated his comm. "This way is clear"